Adding a Riser to the Rifle

[Lowlight]

I have been posting a lot of videos regarding the use of Risers under the scope. Chris (RifleKraft) and I are both using Risers to raise the scope up for comfort. It's impossible to overstate how much better it feels to be up, and not squeezed into 2" vs 3" believe or not. We measured and found the average person has over 6" of space between their eyes and shoulder. The risers open everything up.

Above i swapped the short riser for a little taller. The heights I am settling on are .8 Monstrum or 1.00" both under $20.

As noted in the video, I like this version better than the external screw version better

 

[paulrem308]

What stock is that???? That looks bad ass.

 

[roostercogburn98]

What stock is that???? That looks bad ass.

Zermat Matterhorn

 

[WB300]

@Lowlight

When you put the taller riser on, what was your new height over bore?

And does it help to raise the buttpad if it's adjustable?

 

[BurtG]

Should post in the pit

 

[TheBigCountry]

What Burris comes with push buttons like that?

 

[ToddM]

That's the new XTR PS https://www.burrisoptics.com/riflescopes/xtr-ps?sub=34

I really like this concept, you see a lot of positional shooters in smallbore etc. run much higher mounts/cheek rests in an attempt to get a more natural head/neck position. Anytime you can get in a more neutral/relaxed repeatable position seems like a good thing.

Everyone's neck/head is different but you see a lot of guys with uncomfortable head/neck positions (at least that look uncomfortable) at the range.

Frank: How do you find this works prone? If your body is horizontal does it end up being "too much" in that now it's inducing neck stress the other way? I suppose like anything it's try and see how it goes. I know when I shot a lot of competition 3/4 position we often setup our rifles to be most comfortable in the non-prone positions. The idea was that prone is your most stable position by far, so you could take a "hit" in comfort there, if it helped more in the other 3 positions. One of those trade offs was often to run a bit higher scope/cheek rest height than was "perfect" in prone because for the other 3 positions where your torso was much more vertical it was a more repeatable/comfortable position.

 

[Franko]

The video mentions that it changes the recoil pulse. Can you provide any more detail on this?

Thank you.

 

[gopherslayer]

I’ve been farting around with this for the last 6 months. I d9nt do a lot of prone shooting so I haven’t tried that. It definitely feels better and if you have neck problems it alleviates some discomfort.

I had a Midwest Industries qd mount on my APO 700 back in 2019 and it was a 1.5” mount and felt nice to get behind. I also put closed cell foam on the stock and wrapped it in hockey tape to have a raised comb. I should have messed around more with it back then but health issues kept me sidelined for a few years.

I guess long story short is there’s no reason not to try it with the abundance of adjustable comb height on stocks and chassis.

 

[stanley_white]

And to think that an optic mounted on an AR carry handle is about 2.26”.

-Stan

 

[Jadazu]

The optic sits between the shooters eye and the target. The centerline of the bore, the position of the recoil vector, is somewhere else... lower.

Moving the optic line-of-sight up, relative to the bore centerline, moves the recoil vector lower, favorably closer to the mass of the shooter's body. Even in a prone position, a shooter's eyes are above his shoulder or center chest.

The extreme version would/could be a stock with a heel above the bore centerline and the comb cut away, so that the shooter's head would be vertical, even in the prone position.